Microsoft on Monday became the first major technology company to publicly call out President Barack Obama for not doing enough–in the industry’s eyes–to reform government snooping practices.

The Obama administration last month announced new restrictions on how the National Security Agency queries a database of records on U.S. telephone calls. Last week, it said tech companies will be able to say a little bit more about the amount of data they give to the government. (More on that later.)

But so far the White House has not addressed the issue that perhaps has most angered Silicon Valley executives: The NSA’s ability to collect information from American companies–without a court order–by tapping into cables between data centers overseas.

“Despite the President’s reform efforts and our ability to publish more information, there has not yet been any public commitment by either the U.S. or other governments to renounce the attempted hacking of Internet companies,” Brad Smith, Microsoft’s general counsel, wrote in a blog post. “We believe the Constitution requires that our government seek information from American companies within the rule of law.”

To date, major tech companies such as Google, Facebook and Apple only offered mostly positive statements about government reform efforts.

Microsoft made the comments as part of an update on the amount of customer data it gave to the government last year. For the first time, companies can disclose the number of orders they receive from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, but only in bands of 1,000.

Between Jan. 1 and June 30, 2013, Microsoft received 0-999 FISA orders seeking content from 15,000-15,999 accounts. At the same time, it received less than 1,000 FISA orders for “non-content” data for less than 1,000 accounts.